181: The Science of Linguistics (with Tom Scott)

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week Tom Scott joins us to chat about linguistics, the scientific study of language. If you learn anything from this episode, let it be that a conversation with someone that likes linguistics is always going to go off the rails with as many tangents as possible...

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References & Further Reading
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/science-linguistics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLXNzDUH58
https://linguistics.ucla.edu/undergraduate/what-is-linguistics/#:~:text=Linguistics%20is%20the%20scientific%20study,from%20other%20animal%20communication%20systems%3F
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-27346-1
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/science-linguistics
https://www.britannica.com/science/linguistics/The-20th-century
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=is+linguistics+a+science&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=linguistics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLXNzDUH58
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
https://www.ipachart.com/
https://linguistics.ucla.edu/undergraduate/what-is-linguistics/#:~:text=Linguistics%20is%20the%20scientific%20study,from%20other%20animal%20communication%20systems%3F
https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/undergraduate/why-study-linguistics
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2022/02/13/language-is-the-next-great-frontier-in-ai/
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/why-major-linguistics#:~:text=Linguistics%20is%20a%20major%20that,%2C%20and%20meaning%20(semantics).
https://all-about-linguistics.group.shef.ac.uk/branches-of-linguistics/phonetics/#:~:text=Phonetics%20is%20a%20branch%20of,teeth%2C%20to%20produce%20particular%20sounds.
https://all-about-linguistics.group.shef.ac.uk/branches-of-linguistics/phonology/
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/difference-between-language-dialect/424704/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/language/Historical-attitudes-toward-language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockett%27s_design_features
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4544681/#:~:text=Hockett%20presented%20a%20list%20of,seven%20properties%20he%20identified%20previously.&text=To%20these%20he%20added%20vocal,feedback%2C%20semanticity%2C%20and%20discreteness.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232916/
https://www.thoughtco.com/syntax-grammar-1692182#:~:text=In%20linguistics%2C%20%22syntax%22%20refers,syntactic%20properties%20of%20a%20language.
https://www.thoughtco.com/semantics-linguistics-1692080
https://www.britannica.com/science/pragmatics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/features/schwa/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Sci Guys, the show where we talk about the crazy, weird and wonderful stories from the science world.
0:13.3	I'm Corey, and as always, I'm joined by my co-host, Luke Cutforth, and special guest Tom Scott.
0:18.5	Hey!
0:18.8	Hello!
0:19.1	Woo!
0:20.0	Woo! And special guest, Tom Scott. Hey! Hello! This week we're talking about language learning and speaking science.
0:34.1	But first, we have a YouTube comment to go through.
0:36.9	Do we now? We do. This YouTube
0:38.8	comment is from over a year ago, and it says, it's year 2021, I'm still hopeful there will be
0:44.6	an episode with Tom Scott. Episode on linguistics would be perfect. Just saying.
0:48.8	Oh, look at that. Manifestation. Yeah, I mean, congrats to Dio Valenti for seeing this.
0:56.0	Well, done.
0:57.0	And thank you, Tom, for joining us.
0:58.0	Well, thanks for having me on.
0:59.0	This is where I put the warning at the start that is, it's been, what, 15 years or more
1:04.0	since I graduated from linguistics.
1:06.0	So, like, my knowledge is out of date, and I, like, what I got out of that degree was a few good anecdotes.
1:12.5	This many years later, I can't actually remember that much of it.
1:15.2	So any linguists listening, I apologize.
1:18.4	Great.
1:18.6	So we don't have a single expert here.
1:20.2	Good.
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